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Policy Matters: Pound Player and Football Manager

policy matters: One of my friends was a football manager and they were picking on him, according to Brandon Sun. Jeff stood up and said, 'Leave him alone,' recalled fellow student George Alford, laughing as he remembered the 140-pound player who went on to represent Alabama in the U.S. senate and is now President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general. But linebacker Jeff Sessions, a senior who was barely bigger than his younger schoolmates, didn't join in. It's not like he had any physical presence, Alford said, but he stood up. Yet critics question whether Sessions, whose confirmation would mark a profound change from the Obama administration's Justice Department, can universally apply that sense of fairness to the divisive policy matters that buffet the agency each day. That's the man Sessions' backers want the nation to see on Tuesday when the 70-year-old Republican appears before his colleagues for a confirmation hearing a polite but tenacious little guy fighting for other little guys. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.